Council of Yukon First Nations and Government of Yukon partner to establish Indigenous-led Auntie’s House

The Council of Yukon First Nations and the Government of Yukon are partnering to establish Auntie’s House, a 24-hour staffed, culturally grounded Yukon First Nation group home for Indigenous children in care, including sibling groups. The pilot program, funded by both parties, aims to provide a Yukon First Nation-led, trauma-informed care model and…

The federal government is investing $7 million in eight renewable energy projects across Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Yukon. The funding supports projects including wind speed testing for Baker Lake, solar installations in Chesterfield Inlet and Resolute Bay, a hybrid renewables and diesel microgrid in Arviat, a pollution study in Cambridge…

The Yukon government says the waitlist to be matched with a health provider has fallen by about half, from 4,606 to 2,445, as 12 new doctors join the territory and recruitment efforts continue. It also announced a new licensing path allowing certain internationally trained physicians to practice in Yukon without additional assessments, to help expand…

The article reports that the draft Kaska-B.C. Land Use plan proposes establishing a new Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) called Dene K’éh Kusãn in northern British Columbia, spanning over 30,000 square kilometres from Finlay Russell Provincial Park to the Yukon border and west to Good Hope Lake. The plan is spearheaded by the Dena Keyah…

Yukon University is developing the territory’s first law degree program in partnership with the University of Calgary, with a three-year Juris Doctor program for up to 25 students that will focus on Indigenous governance, modern treaties, and the Yukon legal landscape. Applications are expected to open in the coming weeks, and the program is planned to…

The federal government will consider raising Yukon’s debt cap only after the territory proves prudent fiscal planning and provides detailed spending controls and future borrowing plans. Premier Currie Dixon says Ottawa is time‑sensitive and wants certainty before the fall capital budget and upcoming health‑care funding changes are addressed.

The article reports that Raven ReTek, a tech upcycling program run by the Raven Recycling Society, launched successfully in Whitehorse, aiming to provide low-cost technology to Yukoners and reduce electronic waste after the federal Computers for Schools program ended. It notes that ReTek operates as an in-house, self-funded initiative (no government…

Yukon Premier Currie Dixon said he would consider resigning if the territory breaches its borrowing limit, but is committed to avoiding that by seeking to raise the debt cap from $1.2 billion to $3 billion and providing a debt management plan to the federal government. The government aims to fund infrastructure needs—energy and health care—while…